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Oil pipeline spills about 21K gallons off California coast

The culvert was for rainwater not a leaking oil pipeline.

The engineers should have recognized that the culvert is going to catch anything in the area, and send it straight out to sea. With the pipeline in that vicinity, extra precautions should have been taken.
 
UPDATE: California oil spill: Up to 105,000 gallons lost - CNN.com

The spill is approximately 4 times worse than they originally thought. They now estimate it at over 100 thousand gallons.

If only they would have a similar response to the biological refuse that washes down the Los Angeles and San Gabriel "Rivers" every time it rains. The inhabitants of the barrios up river need to get as ecologically outraged over the pollution they cause as the folks along the coast of Santa Barbara are over this pipeline incident.

Interesting how countless week long beach closures because the water is unsafe for humans rarely makes the news, but one pipe line break has the environauts running around screaming the California coast has been gravely damaged.
 
The engineers should have recognized that the culvert is going to catch anything in the area, and send it straight out to sea. With the pipeline in that vicinity, extra precautions should have been taken.

You mean the pipeline engineers because that drainage culvert likely predates the pipeline. That brings up the poor reliability of engineers to build safe pipelines, I would agree. It is too often about costs and not safety.
 
If only they would have a similar response to the biological refuse that washes down the Los Angeles and San Gabriel "Rivers" every time it rains. The inhabitants of the barrios up river need to get as ecologically outraged over the pollution they cause as the folks along the coast of Santa Barbara are over this pipeline incident.

Interesting how countless week long beach closures because the water is unsafe for humans rarely makes the news, but one pipe line break has the environauts running around screaming the California coast has been gravely damaged.

Right. Since we are making our oceans into sewers anyway why worry about a few marine animals? In fact, why spend one penny to clean up the mess it might end up costing me more at the pump. What else matters by what it might cost ME?
 
Right. Since we are making our oceans into sewers anyway why worry about a few marine animals? In fact, why spend one penny to clean up the mess it might end up costing me more at the pump. What else matters by what it might cost ME?

Spare me. The selective outrage is hypocrisy at it's finest. Sign off the computer. Marine animals are dying so you can have the energy to post.
 
Coal Oil Point seep field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This spill occurred near one of the world's largest natural oil seeps. The seeps produces somewhere between 3-17k gallons of crude into the Santa Barbara Channel everyday. So this spill is a little over 1 day's worth of natrual seepage. The world will go on.

Brilliant, I never thought of it like that. Makes me wonder why we concern ourselves with murder now sense people die everyday of natural causes anyway.
 
Brilliant, I never thought of it like that. Makes me wonder why we concern ourselves with murder now sense people die everyday of natural causes anyway.

Yeah...because thats a valid comparison. Nice try though.
 
You mean the pipeline engineers because that drainage culvert likely predates the pipeline. That brings up the poor reliability of engineers to build safe pipelines, I would agree. It is too often about costs and not safety.

It would be both the civil engineers for the region and the pipeline engineers, as they all would be involved in the design and approval.
 
I can't say the same about your dismissal of a ruptured oil line.


Not dismissal, just adding perspective to prevent the ignorant from over blowing the significance of the event. Spill will be cleaned up and the location for it actually ideal because of the prevalence of oil consuming microorganisms due to the natural seeps. So the ecosystem will recover faster than many other locations.
 
Not dismissal, just adding perspective to prevent the ignorant from over blowing the significance of the event. Spill will be cleaned up and the location for it actually ideal because of the prevalence of oil consuming microorganisms due to the natural seeps. So the ecosystem will recover faster than many other locations.

What's being overblown? Is somebody suggesting such pipelines should be eliminated, or that the owners should be charged with murder for killing sea turtles. Oil leaks and spills need to be taken very seriously.

This is just a few on a list longer than you are tall. The spill in this thread isn't a one-off.

Refugio Oil Spill United States, California, near Refugio State Beach 19 May 2015 unknown 330 [12]
Illinois train derailment United States, Illinois, near Galena 5 March 2015 unknown unknown [13]
2015 Yellowstone River oil spill United States, Montana, near Glendive 17 January 2015 41 160 [14][15]
Black Sea oil spill Russia, Tuapse, near Black Sea 24 December 2014 unknown unknown [16]
Trans-Israel Pipeline Israel, Eilat, Trans-Israel pipeline 6 December 2014 1,948 1,948 [17]
Mid-Valley Pipeline United States, Louisiana, Mooringsport 13 October 2014 546 546 [18]
Lake Michigan oil spill United States, Indiana, Whiting refinery 24 March 2014 2 5 [19][20][21]
MV Miss Susan/MV Summer Wind United States, Texas, Houston Ship Channel 22 March 2014 546 546 [22][23]
North Dakota pipeline spill United States, North Dakota, Hiland 21 March 2014 110 110 [24]
North Dakota train collision United States, North Dakota, Casselton 30 December 2013 1,300 1,300 [25]
Bullenbaai Curaçao, Bullenbaai, Isla refinery 1 November 2013 unknown unknown [26]
North Dakota pipeline spill United States, North Dakota, Tioga 25 September 2013 – 29 September 2013 2,810 2,810 [27][28]
Rayong oil spill Thailand, Rayong/Ko Samet, Gulf of Thailand 27 July 2013 43 163 [29][30]
Lac-Mégantic derailment Canada, Québec, Lac-Mégantic 6 July 2013 4,830 4,830 [31]
Cushing storage terminal United States, Oklahoma, Cushing 18 May 2013 340 340 [32][33]
Mayflower United States, Arkansas, Mayflower 30 March 2013 680 950 [34]
Magnolia refinery United States, Arkansas, Magnolia 9 March 2013 680 760 [35][36]


For the whole list, click here.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills
 
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